Self isolating over the last weeks seems to have allowed people more time to ‘stand and stare’.  A friend told me he had an epiphany whilst looking at (or, more to the point, seeing) a buttercup.  I’ve  always given myself time to stand and stare.  I’m a painter.  Its what we do.  Nonetheless, restrictions on our movements has necessitated repeatedly walking the same paths and I always carry a 4 inch strip of folded paper which is small enough to fit in my pocket with a pencil.  This 4″ square drawing was made as I passed a view toward a neighbouring farmhouse which I have seen at least once a day for the last couple of months, glimpsed through a gap in the Cornish hedge.  It took less than a minute to draw but contains every element that uniquely characterised what I saw. Just cloud, house, gorse and granite stones.